Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Passage tomb art
Mountainstown, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mountainstown
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.75333, -6.74713
- SMR number
- ME012-049----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Vltoniae Orientalis Pars (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
A stone (dims 0.55m x 0.55m; T 0.15m) that had been in a drain was used in a stile. One surface has incised chevron touching a straight line at two points with two short lines parallel with lines of the chevron. (Ó Broin 2000; Eogan 2011, 14)
See attached line drawing taken from O'Broin 2000, Fig. 2
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 3 March, 2017
References
Eogan, G. 2011 Some individual stones with prehistoric art from County Meath. Ríocht na Mídhe, vol. 22, 1-19.
Ó Broin, N. 2000 A decorated stone from Mountainstown, Co. Meath. Ríocht na Mídhe, vol. 11, 17-19.
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Fontunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.